#beginners
- Tracking workflow — advice from the scene conceptHow experienced trackers of the 1990s said to work — most of it still true for sid-wizard and lsdj .
- TW #105 — Interview With A Couple Of Newbies (Behemoth) summaryBehemoth interviews two beginners — Exokai (Dan Aley, 13, San Diego, a month in the scene) and Sonalore (Kevin Malin, 15, Marietta GA, listening for a year and a half, tracking for a year without a release) — "to give …
- TW #107 — Layman's Music Theory, part one (Zinc) summaryzinc , who has "absolutely no formal music training", writes the theory primer he wished existed: how to spell a triad from interval qualities. No further parts followed in the archive's TOC.
- TW #21 — Tracking Tips (Dan Hartrell) summaryA 14-year-old Mazurka member's beginner lesson, built around a hypothetical newbie called Studly, on why melodies need scales and rhythm — with the scale formulas written as tracker keyboard steps.
- TW #3 — Music: Beginning the Tracking Experience (Psibelius) summarypsibelius on how he started tracking and what a newcomer should avoid.
- TW #32 — Not So Advanced Tracking Tips (Atlantic) summaryAtlantic's "confession" of the habits that slowed his own progress, sorted into five tracker types.
- TW #77 — General Tracking Tips (Generic Blues) summaryTen tips for a beginning tracker.
- TW #86 — Hexadecimal 101 (chinaski) summaryA newcomer's explanation of hex for trackers: base 16 with digits 0–9 and A–F, a 0 prefix or h suffix marks a hex value, and a two-digit value is the second digit × 16 plus the first ( 02Eh = 2×16 + 14 = 46 — the …